| Object Number | 66-19-3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Rega | Lega |
| Provenience | Republic of the Congo |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber | Wood | Grass |
| Description | Mask used by second highest rank of Bwami secret society, which is important for social control, etc (highest rank has ivory masks); mask held in hand by vertical handle, carved from same piece of wood, is carved of a (special) light wood and is partly covered with white pigment; inverted ovaloid shape, concave back; eyes with slit pupils in champ-leve in deep depressions on either side of long flat nose; mouth upturned crescent; around lower half holes perforated by burning for attachment of plaited raphia "beard". |
| Height | 19.7 cm |
| Width | 12.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1966 |
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